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Sendicate: Reinventing Email Newsletters, And More Proof That Email Isn’t Dead
- gingerlime 14y agoWithout going into the email is alive/dead discussion. Sendicate does look quite awesome, nicely designed, very sleek. I can see a market for that (even though Mailchimp does an ok job already). But other than that, I can't see what really makes it the future of email? or how it reinvents emails?
- chadyj 14y agoIt is no secret that email as a whole needs to be updated for the myriad of modern uses, and I believe this is going to happen through new components that make parts of the ecosystem better. Email is the sum of its parts from protocols, servers, clients, content, users, and little by little we are seeing progress.
- hos9988 14y agoDoes anyone with half a brain really need proof that email isn't dead? Aside from the phone, email is one of the most intimate forms of communication that we have. Social Networks like Facebook will always have their haters and lovers, but email will be here to stay for the long haul. It's the true neutral medium of the internet. Anyone who has used the incumbent tools knows they don't work as well as they advertise. ConstantContact is a behemoth that fails to innovate. MailChimp has a cute monkey but the product is less than compelling. Kudos to Sendicate for creating something unique, because this is a space that needs to be taken to the next level.
- paulodeon 14y agoThere are loads of great new services for email these days. Sendicate is interesting because of it's opinionated approach and great modern design. If you already have a design though you should try Mailrox (https://www.mailrox.com https://www.mailrox.com). It's dead easy to upload designs and create email templates which can then be used in Mailchimp, Campaign monitor or other services. </shamelessplug>
- rhizome 14y agoA textbook instance of begging the question. Who is saying that email is dead?
- chadyj 14y agoThe journalist Paul Carr is referencing an earlier article where he talks about his misconception that email is dead. http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/17/yesterday-i-thought-email-was-dead-yesterday-i-was-an-idiot/ http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/17/yesterday-i-thought-email-w... Even pg this week mentioned that email might not be the optimal tool and there might be a better tool to solve some of the problems (http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html), and there is no shortage of email is dead posts and comments here on HN.
- rhizome 14y agoSo, an ex-Techcrunch writer uses himself as a source for that assertion? This is why I call him a writer instead of a journalist. There is no possible way to infer that Mr. Graham was saying anything close to email being dead, simply that it's sometimes used for things that might be better handled other ways.
- mijustin 14y agoMark Zuckerberg, most famously, thought that Facebook would kill email (2010): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1329979/Facebook-email-Mark-Zuckerberg-launches-Google-Gmail-killer.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1329979/Faceb... http://www.channel4.com/news/has-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-just-killed-off-email http://www.channel4.com/news/has-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-j...